The Association for the Restoration of the
Fatherland and the tradition of great national unity
May 5 this year
marks the 72nd anniversary of the Association for the Restoration of
the Fatherland, the example of the movement of the national
united front and great national unity in the world.
The situation of revolution
created in
In quick response to it, President
Kim Il Sung put forward the policy
of inaugurating a permanent united front organization and expanding it on a
nationwide scale under the close relations with the movement of the
anti-Japanese national united front and the anti-Japanese armed struggle at the
Nanhutou Meeting in February 1936.
Throughout the arduous
march accompanied by trying ordeals and fierce battles against the Japanese
troops, he made full preparations for forming a united front by working out its
program, statute and inaugural declaration. On
He delivered a historic speech
under the title Let
Us Further Expand and Develop the Anti-Japanese National United Front Movement
and Take the Korean Revolution as a Whole to a New Upsurge.
In his report, he referred
to the need to rally the entire nation as one political force under the banner
of national liberation and establish in the border area a new base which the
Korean People’s Revolutionary Army could rely on, in order to conduct the anti-Japanese
national united front movement dynamically and further expand and develop the
anti-Japanese armed struggle by advancing into the border area and the homeland.
He made public the Ten-Point Program of the ARF and the Inaugural Declaration of the ARF at the
meeting. The meeting adopted the Rules
of the ARF that he worked out.
He was elected chairman of
the ARF at the meeting.
With the founding of the
ARF, the anti-Japanese national united front movement developed rapidly in a more
organized and systematic way on a nationwide scale, closely combined with the
anti-Japanese armed struggle. It was able to dynamically organize and mobilize
all the anti-Japanese forces to the struggle for national liberation.
After the founding of the
ARF, the entire Korean nation focused on
The seasoned leadership of General
Kim Il Sung resulted in the
expansion of the ARF into a pan-national organization involving hundreds and
thousands of members from all walks of life and from all parts of
The precious gains made in
the united front movement and the brilliant traditions of great national unity
established by President Kim Il Sung
made it possible for the Korean people to successfully carry out the
anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution. Despite the complicated
situation after the country’s liberation, those with strength devoted strength,
those with knowledge contributed knowledge and those with money donated money
to build a new country. The Koreans worked political and military miracles by
defeating the
The advance of the Korean
people for independent reunification, peace and prosperity meet with grave obstacles
owing to vicious challenges of the
However,